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30. Registrations. The following table shows, in detail, the total number of registrations for military training under the Defence Act effected since the introduction of the scheme of universal military training, up to 31st March, 1918 :—

From the Ist May, 1917, to the 31st March, 1918, the total number of registrations recorded throughout the Dominion was 10,716. t i. 31. Regulations and Publications. Since the date of my last annual report, regulations as under have been gazetted : — («.) Regulations for the equipment of the New Zealand Military Forces. (b.) Regulations for the New Zealand Army Pay Department and the, New Zealand Pay Corps. (c.) Regulations for the New Zealand Army Ordnance Department and the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. (d.) Under the Military Service Act, 1916 : Regulations as to the cessation of voluntary enlistment of members of the First Division of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Reserve ; regulations re Home Service Branch, N.Z.E.F. ; amendments to regulations as to financial assistance for soldiers of the N.Z.E.F. ; Proclamation extending provisions of the Military Service Act, with certain modifications, to Natives, and the constitution of Native recruiting districts ; regulations requiring Reservists of the Second Division to furnish information to the Government Statistician as to their children, and classifying the Second Division of the N.Z E.F. Reserve ; amended regulations for the Home Service Branch of the N.Z.E.F., providing for the compulsory employment on home service of soldiers who, being liable for service under the Military Service Act, have committed an offence under that Act or the Army Act, and who may be subsequently transferred from the Foreign Service Branch to the Home Service Branch of the N.Z.E.F. ; regulations ordering the abolition of recruiting districts consequent upon it being decided to select men (by ballot) from a single register for the whole of New Zealand, instead of from district registers as previously ; amended regulations for the medical examination of recruits for the N.Z.E.F. ; amended regulations as to the, attestation of recruits, and prescribing new forms of attestation ; Proclamation proclaiming tho enrolment of all classes of the Second Division of the Reserve ; regulations as to registers of Reservists, and their selection by ballot; Proclamation directing enrolment of First, Division of Native Expeditionary Force Reserve ; regulations as to registers pf Native Reservists and their selection by ballot. (c.) Under the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Act, 1915 : Regulations as to the pay of soldiers discharged as medically unfit from the, training-camps of the Expeditionary Force. /.) Under the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments : Amended regulations re military honours and military funerals ; Order in Council withdrawing exempt.on from training of persons residing in certain areas ; amendment to Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations, increasing the pay of bombardiers in the R.N.Z.A. ; regulations for the promotion of officers of the Motor Boat Section, N.Z. Forces Motor Service Corps ; regulations as to imprisonment and detention. (g.) Under the War Regulations Act, 1914, and its amendments : War Regulations making it an offence under the War Regulations Act to obstruct or interfere with the Military Police in the execution of their duty ; War Regulations providing for the protection of soldiers' property. The following official publications have been issued : — (a.) New Zealand Army List for September, 1917. (A further edition of this list revised up to May, 1918, has since been issued.) (b.) General Orders (monthly). (c.) Returned Soldiers' Handbook (two revised editions). (d.) Special General Orders re — (i.) Pay and allowances, (ii.) Instructions relating to pay duties, (iii.) Employments of temporary instructors, (iv.) Standing Orders for transports. ' (v.) Instructions relative to the internment and treatment of enemy subjects. (vi a ) Visits to detention barracks in military training-camps, and prisoners therein.

District. Territorials. Senior Cadets. Totals. Auckland Canterbury Otago Wellington 10,867 7,693 6,859 10,249 22,769 23,090 15,996 27,479 33,636 30,783 22,855 37,728 Totals 35,668 89,334 125,002